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Eliot Weinberger is an essayist and translator. His recent works include the National Book Critics Circle-nominated 'What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles; 'What I Heard About Iraq'; and most recently, 'The Ghost of Birds' and with Octavio Paz '11 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei' He won The National Book Critics award for criticism for his translations of Borges. And PEN's first Gregory Kolovakos Award for promoting Hispanic literature in the US, and he is America's first literary writer to receive Mexico's Order of the Aztec Eagle. He lives in New York City.Eliot Weinberger is a master essayist, a furious thinker and an exceptionally elegant writer.
- Jenny Diski,
'It stands to reason that Eliot Weinberger, an old Borges hand, should be so adept at teasing out the nightmarish, nearly phantasmagoric dimensions of our country's post-9/11 situation.
The Village Voice
No neocon has opened his or her mouth without the poet Eliot Weinberger hearing it and never forgiving.
The Times
The essays collected in What Happened Here put forth such a wise indictment of the current President that reading it is like being punched in the solar plexus...like Joan Didion, Weinberger is a master of distilling massive amounts of information into a compelling takedown, and even readers who are already on his progressive wavelength will feel roused by his well-articulated anger.
Time Out New York